assembly language routine to add to int in a multiprocessor multi-threaded application properly

[MWind2]

I confess I am unsure of my reading of the lock instruction in Chapter 8 volume 3a of the of "LOCKED ATOMIC OPERATIONS", and I have some questions. Will a LOCK <supported instructions> <supported types/alignment> be enough to insure each thread on possibly different processors/cores read the updated write properly or be prevented from writing to a stale value? I have read some confusing explanations some of which I suspect are wrong, and I would narrow the request for windows os and assembly language to make the essential as clear as it can be.

[David_V_Intel]

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